APTCU quarterback Andy Dalton (14) drops back to hand off in the first half of a college football game against Air Force last month in Fort Worth, Texas.

Think TCU joining the Big East as a football-only member would be the ideal solution to conference expansion? Think again.

TCU athletic director Chris Del Conte recently told the Sporting News that the Horned Frogs were not interested in joining the Big East, or any conference, on a football-only basis.

“We’re an athletic department,” he said in a telephone interview with Sporting News. “Whatever endeavor we do, you’re united as one. That’s who we are. That’s how we always compete. We compete as one unit.”